Nowata Star
126 E. Cherokee St.
Nowata, OK 74048
March 7, 2001
Permission for archiving obituaries given by Phillip Reid, Publisher

Funeral services for Glen B. Fisher, 75, of Pond Creek, who died Saturday, March 3, 2001 were held Tuesday, March 6 in the Pond Creek United Methodist Church with the Reverends Terry Koehn and Sherry Shaw officiating. Interment followed in Arapaho Cemetery in Arapaho under trhe direction of Wilson Funeral Home of Pond Creek.

Glen was born July 11, 1925 at Clinton, the son of Charles Ralph and Hazel Hester Giles Fisher. He grew up in Arapaho, graduating from High School in 1948 after he returned from WWII. He served in the U.S. Marines in the South Pacific from 1944 to 1946 and was in the occupation of Japan. He graduated from Southwestern State College in Weatherford in 1952 where he played baseball and pitched a no-hit game. He married Arlene Mueller June 28, 1948 at Clinton.

Fisher taught Jr. High and High School Math and coached basketball at Lake Valley, Drummond, Lenapah and Fairfax and moved to Pond Creek in 1977. He also drove a school bus. He was also an active member of the United Methodist Church and Sunday School; president of the Pond Creek Lions Club and member of the Senior Citizens. He loved to garden and fish.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Arlene, in 1997; his parents and one brother, Ronald.

His survivors are one son, Terry R. Fisher, Tulsa; two daughters: Judy Bugher, Elk City and Glenna Sue husband, Del City; one brother, Harvey Fisher, Oklahoma City; a sister, leNora Barrick, of Bethel, Missouri; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Memorials may be made to United Methodist Church through Wilson Funeral Home, Pond Creek.